Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 46

“I am not in pain,” said mac an Da’v.

Who acts: pain · What happens: not be, say, mac · To what, where: pain, Da’v · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 pain	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pain	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pain	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pain	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 pain	case
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pain	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pain	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	mac	mac	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Da’v	det
12	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mac	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	pain		pain	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	pain			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mac	infinitive		a Da’v		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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